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One of the standard textbooks of German-language evaluation research has undergone a new edition. Since the first edition from 2007, 15 years have passed. In the meantime, a lot has happened with regard to the institutionalisation and professionalisation of evaluation research. With the new edition of the Handbook for Evaluation, students, practitioners and also experienced evaluators receive a significantly expanded and updated version of the classic. The volume documents the steps taken so far in the institutionalisation and professionalisation of evaluation and provides practical advice for conducting evaluations throughout their entire course. Despite some desiderata, the handbook is still the most comprehensive introduction to evaluation research for many practitioners and students in German language. It offers orientation and serves as a reference work even for experienced evaluators. Stockmann’s commitment to the professionalisation and institutionalisation of evaluation has thus created an institution of its own kind in the form of the Handbook, the reception of which will hopefully help to clear up the misunderstandings often found about the status and quality characteristics of evaluations.
Die kommunale Europaarbeit ist mit einer Vielzahl von Herausforderungen konfrontiert. In diesem Working Paper stellen wir Beispiele bester Praktiken vor, die unterschiedliche Aspek-te dieser Herausforderungen adressieren. Von der Fördermittelakquise über Netzwerkarbeit, Zielgruppenansprache und Städtepartnerschaftsarbeit bis hin zur internen Europaarbeit finden sich ganz unterschiedliche Beispiele, wie Europaarbeit lokal organisiert werden kann. Die Steckbriefe geben dabei eine schnelle Übersicht, mit welchem Ressourcenaufwand das jeweilige Projekt durchgeführt werden kann und beinhalten Hinweise zu Herausforderungen und Nutzen des Projekts. So können Ideen einfach und passgenau adaptiert werden.
Academia and practitioners agree that the local level is crucial for EU cohesion. However, further conceptual and empirical development is needed. The paper introduces an under-standing of European cohesion consisting of a horizontal and a vertical dimension, covering individuals' relationships with each other and the polity. We review the predominantly nation-state-focused, interdisciplinary literature on support for the European Union (vertical dimension) and societal Europeanization (horizontal dimension) through a 'local lens', arguing in favour of combining the two dimensions in one framework of cohesion. We derive empirical expectations about the role of local agency for European cohesion and operationa-lise European cohesion, thus designing a coherent framework for analysing the local foundations of European cohesion.
This chapter focuses on the impact of specific “administrative styles,” understood as the everyday routines of the organization, on the reform patterns in international organizations. Consolidators are hence primarily driven by positional rather than policy interests. Entre-preneurs combine the latter two types; they develop administrative routines that entail intensive bureaucratic advocacy in policy-making and a strong orientation toward institu-tional consolidation to strengthen the administration’s position. In contrast, the picture should be completely different for consolidators. Given consolidators’ dominant motivation to secure their institutional status and legitimacy, organizational reforms will to a far greater degree reveal patterns of emulation of dominant reform paradigms and reform ideas in their organizational environment. Public sector organizations adopted these reports from the private sector as a form of communication with external and internal stakeholders. Most reforms have been identified within the area of organizational reforms, for example, institutional adjustments of the directorates.